Rethinking Disability and Human Rights

This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do not enjoy.

0.Introduction - Rethinking citizenship and disability. Part One. 1.Exploring the relationship between Citizenship and Universal Design. 2.Veterans from Life: Rehabilitation as Compensation. Interlude One - Life is possible. 3.Rethinking Utopia. Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and Disability. 4.Mad Citizenship. Part Two. 5.Conditions for religious citizenship for people with intellectual disabilities: Cases from Norway and Slovakia. Interlude Two - "Symbiotic citizenship" and a struggle for the right of life as frames for interpreting the 40-day disability protest in the Polish Parliament. 6.The Space of Accessibility and Universal Design. 7.Enabling equal citizenship: Responses from civil society. Interlude Three - Global Disability Summit: How to realize "nothing without us". 8.Universal Human Rights and Universal Design for People with Disabilities: Challenges and Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa. Postscript - Dialogue between Rosemarie Garland-Tomson and Inger Marie Lid.